Ended our first trip to Hawai'i with a couples "The Journey Package" (80 mins) lomi lomi massage with hot stones, muscle relief balm, hydrating coconut scalp treatment and aromatherapy. It was $260/person less 15% I believe because we booked two packages.
I wouldn't technically call this a spa. We were taken to a hotel room converted into 1 "spa" room with two massage beds. There are no amenities other than the pools and hot tub that are already part of the hotel. It's somewhat clinical and right off the pool, so unfortunately if the pool is busy, especially with children, you will hear quite a bit of noise. Luckily for us, it wasn't one of those days, but noise was heard periodically.
The masseuses were good, we both enjoyed our massages. I think I enjoyed mine more so than my partner did. I'm not sure if they actually used muscle relief balm though, because it felt like ordinary massage oil. I'm not sure exactly what the coconut scalp treatment was. I received a head massage which was nice but I didn't smell any coconut. My partner said that his head massage lasted maybe a couple of minutes. There definitely was no aromatherapy that we could detect.
At the end of our session, my masseuse said they would let us get dressed and then check in on us to review how we were feeling. When they returned, they asked us how we were doing but before we could barely respond, they proceeded to give us the tablet to pay. They already have the bill preset at 20% gratuity. Which they did acknowledge and then said if we wanted to change it we could. However they were hovering over us making us feel very uncomfortable, so we just paid the bill as is and left.
After taxes and tip the total came to $582.42 US which converted into Canadian dollars works out to $794.83.
My partner and I love going to the spa. We see a massage therapist at least once a month and this was not our first time indulging in time at a spa but unfortunately this experience has turned us off of doing it again while on vacation.
We expect to pay a premium at a spa when on vacation and at a nice hotel/resort. However, if we are going to pay almost $800 we would expect to come away feeling bliss, like the name of the spa, unfortunately we did not. read more